Painting trees in her home art studio, Barb Beckman knows the importance of branching out.  The one-time architect pointed ...

with accounts of glass painting dating back to ancient Roman times and ancient China. Around the ninth century, glass art began to be used in church windows to depict scenes, characters and ...

She paints using both dot and scrape techniques, creating whimsical art. Some of her work is done by "squishing" paintings with a sheet of glass, resulting in two pieces of art — the painting on ...